Tracking the EagleBank Bowl tie-ins

Considering the Green Wave accounted for one of the Black Knights’ three victories a season ago, today did not exactly do wonders for Army’s chances of playing in the postseason for the first time since 1996.

2009 Opponent

Result

2008 Equivalent

Result

at Eastern Michigan

W, 27-14

Eastern Michigan

W, 17-13

Duke

L, 35-19

at Rice

L, 38-31

Ball State

W, 24-17

Akron

L, 22-3

at Iowa State

L, 31-10

at Texas A&M

L, 21-17

Tulane

L, 17-16

at Tulane

W, 44-13

Vanderbilt

at Buffalo

L, 27-24

at Temple

Temple

L, 35-7

Rutgers

at Rutgers

L, 30-3

at Air Force

Air Force

L, 16-7

VMI

New Hampshire

L, 28-10

at North Texas

Louisiana Tech

W, 14-3

vs. Navy

vs. Navy

L, 34-0

And onto the ACC, which will send its No. 8 selection to the Dec. 29 game at RFK Stadium.

After five weeks, five ACC teams have losing records. That means there’s a good old-fashioned ruh-roh, since that situation holding up through the end of the season would potentially send the EagleBank Bowl scurrying for an at-large team.